I allso love are local railroad history to I live right by this line to you came very close to where I live ---milwaukee lake shore and western railroad built this line in 1874 so many businesses it served for so long --so sad it like this now very great video you did thank you sir

This is a really neat video Brian. Thanks for putting it together.

Nice little flashback Lived in TR about 20 years ago, and my daughter and I did pretty much the same exploration. I believe there was more track exposed at the time though, but the bridge still looks the same. We lived a bit upstream on the West Twin River and worked at Burger Boat in Manitowoc.

Drove up here and stayed at a State Park while in the Navy, Great Lakes Ill. Great memories thanks. New Sub.

Very cool, Brian. Your access to the Val Maps, Track Charts, and Spot Books make these videos PURE GOLD.

it used to run to Mirro & Hamilton's back in the day. I used to fish under & on the bridge.

I took a trip in I think1954 when I was 3 years old on the CN&W / Pere Marquette Railway from Lake Forest Illinois to Marquette Michigan I think the engines were switched in Green Bay. We were in a sleeper car. I think a year later we took Pullman service to Gulf port Mississippi with a transfer between trains in Memphis TN. Keep up the good reporting.

Nice piece of railroad archaeology. Manitowoc and Two Rivers are charming towns. My wife and I always stop at the Waverly Inn when passing through. Next time I'll try to walk some of the tracks you explored.

Probably brought cement to the former Rader ready mix that used to be close.

I was trying to follow along on google maps. Quite neat

Such rich history in Manitowoc. I rode the car ferry across Lake Michigan many times and watched them unload rail cars. Wish you would do a video on the old rail yard at the dock and what the tracks look like now.

It's really a shame how much industry that area has lost. I grew up not too far from there, outside of Green Bay, and not far from the old C & NW lakeshore route from Manitowoc to Green Bay. Our house was on a hill, close enough that you could see the trans running from my bedroom window. My recollection is that it was a very busy line back in the 60's and 70's, esp. when there were still passenger trains. For those who aren't familiar now that line is a bike trail for most of the route between GB and Manty. Also a shame...

I'm surprised the rails haven't been taken out.

Loved seeing this again. grew up in T.R. and Manty I remember these lines as active . the one spur was from C Riess coal (now seagull marina) worked in the Mirro building that the tracks disappear in . where it goes off thru the gate before the bridge , was Koss lumber yard

Good stuff! Well done.

Thank you Brian for doing this! What an awesome look at what once was and still is. You're doing an awesome job with all your videos!

Probably 15 or 20 years ago got to see some of this on a real rainy day but you brought out some great details. That does look like some intense industrial tracking so thank you for checking it out. It seems like it was last used perhaps in the mid-1990s and maybe didn't even see FRVR service. The Milwaukee Journal recently had an article about how many of the buildings have been demolished from the industries that moved out. I'm sure people are trying to figure out how to turn it into condos andyacht clubs

After you cross the swing bridge the rails also went along the river past Metalware and the vets park boat launch. Just past the boat launch there are rails in the woods.

Very cool... some of the old cnw heads that i worked with talked about working the airline and manitowoc subs back then. They mentioned the infamous runaway switch engine that ended up in the river, buried in mud up there.

Great video

THink its safe to say,this line isn't coming back.Sad!

Do you own those maps and guides? If so I would like a copy of them I'm new to the area and would like to know more of it's rail history

Thank you for this journey along the former Chicago & North Western Railroad's Two Rivers, Wisconsin branch line. I found this video interesting. It reminded me that in the late 1970s and early 1980s that I knew a man who had a model railroad that he called the Two Rivers & Antigo Railroad. The railroad was based on an imaginary C&NW line from Two Rivers, Wisconsin to Antigo, Wisconsin. He had in mind the idea that if the railroad ever went out of business, the company could become a rail car Leasor whose reporting marks would be TRAX. I want to say that the man's surname was Traxel.

Love to see more on some former cnw and milw rd tracks that the WC had and eventually pulled up or are still in the area i worked for the WC and CN i know most of the active tracks that are still used

Nice. Wesconsin? Lol. We say Wisconsin who live here.

Used to be a lumber yard on the right. Koss Lumber. when your children love & marry, build their homes with cash & carry. Koss lumber

Wish you had spent some time discussing the industries served by the railroad. I had a girlfriend in College who's father owned a ship building industry in Monotowoc and lived in two rivers. I would have liked to see those site's as well. Very interesting however

Very well done. Sad that our country would rather support trucking vs railroads. This is evidence.